Related News
Students finding it difficult on their own
Source: Xinhua |
September 27, 2012, Thursday
|
Print Edition
Print Edition
A COLLEGE student in east China has been thrust into the media spotlight after she sent her dirty clothes home to be washed.
Her 74-year-old grandmother in the northeastern city of Dalian was asked to return the clothes once they'd been washed, according to a local newspaper.
The granddaughter recently enrolled in a university in Qingdao.
Newspapers and online news services quickly picked up the story and the student was suddenly at the center of much comment and criticism.
Since the beginning of the autumn semester, there have been many reports of new students, often from one-child families, finding it hard to cope on their own.
The reports gave rise to the question of whether indulgent parents should be to blame for their children's inability to take care of themselves.
"They should have basic operating abilities, and they surely need to know how to tend to their clothes," was one comment on Weibo. "They can't depend on their families their whole lives."
Another comment claimed: "Nowadays, many children are fragile," adding that parents were failing to give their children responsibilities at home, such as doing the household chores.
Xu Yafei, a junior at Nanchang University, said he had never washed clothes prior to gong to university and once took a month's worth of dirty socks home for his mother to wash.
"Later, I realized that I should live independently and, therefore, started making attempts to change," he said.
"College campus life is half like a society. After graduation, we need to live more independently," Xu added.
Freshman Liu Hao started doing his own laundry this summer, and now has no problems with campus life. "During the summer vacation, my parents arranged for me to do household chores to prepare for university life," Liu said.
Some experts say that the current education system, where students learn mechanically from textbooks, doesn't instill a sense of responsibility and self-sufficiency.
Students have been trained to study hard in school, and mastering the abilities that would make them self-sufficient and independent was not a priority, said Yin Xiaojian, a researcher at the Jiangxi Academy of Social Sciences.
Her 74-year-old grandmother in the northeastern city of Dalian was asked to return the clothes once they'd been washed, according to a local newspaper.
The granddaughter recently enrolled in a university in Qingdao.
Newspapers and online news services quickly picked up the story and the student was suddenly at the center of much comment and criticism.
Since the beginning of the autumn semester, there have been many reports of new students, often from one-child families, finding it hard to cope on their own.
The reports gave rise to the question of whether indulgent parents should be to blame for their children's inability to take care of themselves.
"They should have basic operating abilities, and they surely need to know how to tend to their clothes," was one comment on Weibo. "They can't depend on their families their whole lives."
Another comment claimed: "Nowadays, many children are fragile," adding that parents were failing to give their children responsibilities at home, such as doing the household chores.
Xu Yafei, a junior at Nanchang University, said he had never washed clothes prior to gong to university and once took a month's worth of dirty socks home for his mother to wash.
"Later, I realized that I should live independently and, therefore, started making attempts to change," he said.
"College campus life is half like a society. After graduation, we need to live more independently," Xu added.
Freshman Liu Hao started doing his own laundry this summer, and now has no problems with campus life. "During the summer vacation, my parents arranged for me to do household chores to prepare for university life," Liu said.
Some experts say that the current education system, where students learn mechanically from textbooks, doesn't instill a sense of responsibility and self-sufficiency.
Students have been trained to study hard in school, and mastering the abilities that would make them self-sufficient and independent was not a priority, said Yin Xiaojian, a researcher at the Jiangxi Academy of Social Sciences.
- About Us
- |
- Terms of Use
- |
-
RSS - |
- Privacy Policy
- |
- Contact Us
- |
- Shanghai Call Center: 962288
- |
- Tip-off hotline: 52920043
- 沪ICP证：沪ICP备05050403号-1
- |
- 互联网新闻信息服务许可证：31120180004
- |
- 网络视听许可证：0909346
- |
- 广播电视节目制作许可证：沪字第354号
- |
- 增值电信业务经营许可证：沪B2-20120012
Copyright © 1999- Shanghai Daily. All rights reserved.Preferably viewed with Internet Explorer 8 or newer browsers.
